Famous quotes containing the words comparison and/or sorts:
“In everyone’s youthful dreams, philosophy is still vaguely but inseparably, and with singular truth, associated with the East, nor do after years discover its local habitation in the Western world. In comparison with the philosophers of the East, we may say that modern Europe has yet given birth to none.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“All our pursuits, from childhood to manhood, are only trifles of different sorts and sizes, proportioned to our years and views.”
—Samuel Richardson (1689–1761)